Fabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free! 
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Yes No. 1 was a real ear opener!!Originally posted by jonfan View PostFabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Just sorry we did not get 2 and 5, or were they on earlier editions of Afternoon Concert?Originally posted by Nick Armstrong View Post
Yes No. 1 was a real ear opener!!Comment
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Perhaps they weren't played so not available? There was a violin concerto from the same forces in the 3pm slot on Wednesday instead of a symphony.Originally posted by Bryn View PostComment
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Agreed, My speakers are still recovering from the Inextinguishable yesterday. How can you hit timps so hard and so fast without the sticks flying in the air in the manner of Carl Palmer?Originally posted by jonfan View PostFabulous performances this week of Nielsen Symphonies from Denmark conducted by Fabio Luisi. The recordings from the same source on DG have received rave reviews. So save money and listen to these for free!Comment
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...or the skins bursting, as in Charlie Drake's famous '1812' sketch.
I wonder if Wiliam Walton heard Nielsen's 4th before writing the end of his first symphony.Comment
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Wasn’t one timp filled with milk which then splashed over Charlie ? A rather clever Dadaist moment.Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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Searching the playlists for AC over the past 2 years yields No. 2 on 8th June, but no No. 5. No. 6 has been done twice, on 10th Jan and 27th Oct.Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Widening the search to all programmes yields snippets of Nielsen symphonies in other programmes, and a concert performance of No. 4 in R3iC, but no No. 5.
(The playlists aren't perfect, so No. 5 may well have been broadcast.)
There have been broadcasts of No. 5 in AC but with other performers.Comment
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Yes, indeed, the milk-filled drum. I wonder how they thoought that one up.
I shall always remember seeing Charlie Drake fall through a bookcase and knock himself out live on TV, a slapstick gag that went wrong, bringing his career to an end for some time.Comment
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Well, once you start referring to them as kettle drums the imagination doesn't have to stretch too far?Originally posted by smittims View Post
I did wonder if Hoffnung might have done something with timpani, which resulted in finding this image. Pity the explanation is incorrect - the kettle drums are not the wrong way up, which should be apparent even to a musical ignoramus from the depiction of the percussionist playing them.
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Thanks, I enjoyed that. I suppose 'Punch' itself will soon be among the things time forgot.Last edited by smittims; 29-10-23, 07:37.Comment
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... especially the three-months out-of-date ones in dentists' waiting rooms...Originally posted by smittims View PostComment
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Tuning in late but nice variations... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rr64Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...Comment
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Afternoon Concert often has online "Music played" information that doesn't quite tally with what's heard or what is on the indication of content, but today they've gone all out. I've read through a couple of times, but no - what's listed is a completely different programme. Just as well R3 isn't flooded with classical newbies who might be misled... Although depending on what appears for catch up services even non-newbies might be puzzled - or is the correct info published for that? I don't use them so don't know how that side of it works.Comment
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I have noticed this, too. The supervisor of the interns is doing a poor job.Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
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